Congress: Bush officially bonkers.

Remember how the President played the FISA game back in August? He actually threatened not only to veto any FISA bill that wasn't written exactly as he wanted (and remember, he hadn't yet figured out that he needed to demand retroactive amnesty for the telecom companies back then), but he also threatened to call a special session of Congress and force them to stay until they gave him his custom-tailored bill.

Well, it's good to see the Congress taking the issue of Bush's petulance and willingness to push every limit seriously at last:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has joined with her Senate colleague, scheduling two pro forma sessions for the House this week so that Bush cannot call Congress back into special session to take up the now-expired Protect America Act, an enhanced surveillance bill that lapsed over the weekend, or the Senate-passed amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Between this recognition of just how hyper-aggressive Bush might be willing to be, calling the FISA bluff, and the clear reminders of the constitutional principles at stake in the contempt vote last week, we had a nice little visit with Article I.

Here's hoping it sticks around a while.

When the President is so far gone that you actually have to resort to this sort of thing, you need all the Articles you can get.